Ski three great resorts on one great ticket in Big Snow Country!

INDIANHEAD *  BIG POWDERHORN * BLACKJACK

Big Snow Country gives you THREE times the runs, THREE times the snow, THREE times the and THREE times the value.  The HILL HOPPER ticket package gives you access to all THREE of Big Snow Country's resorts for the ultimate ski and snowboard experience!  Ski THREE mountains for two days for only $ 88!  Purchase your HILL HOPPER online at www.bigsnow.com  Choose from 2-day, 3-day and 4 day packages. Children 9 and under ski FREE with a paid adult!

Mt. Zion Snow Tube Park

Mt. Zion, owned and operated by Gogebic Community College serves as a laboratory for the colleges nationally recognized Ski Area Management Program.  There a ski hill on the campus run by students.  Mt. Zion offers a ski racing program for children and assorted learn to ski and snowboard clinics along with the snow tubing park.  It has 10 slopes and trails, a free cross-country trail, ski and snowboard rentals, a snack bar, and a power tilled slope with a 300 foot vertical drop.  GCC students and senior citizens age 62 and older can ski and snowboard for free at Mt. Zion.  For more on the Snow Tube Park hours contact the Mt. Zion ski hill at (906) 932-3718.
CROSS COUNTRY SKIING IN THE OTTAWA NATIONAL FOREST

The Bergland Ski Trail is located just one mile north of Bergland, off M-64. Scenic hardwoods and pockets of hemlock provide the backdrop for a 3.2 mile ski trail. You may find yourself sharing the trail with white-tailed deer as the hemlock provides thermal cover for them along with a variety of other fur bearing mammals and wintering songbirds.

An auxiliary trail loop of 3.4 miles in length adds hills and short slopes of medium difficulty for the skier on the Bergland Ski Trail.   The trail is groomed weather permitting, and the skier should call the Ontonagon Ranger District for a current grooming report.  This is a very picturesque trail that is well marked.  It is rare to see anyone else using this trail when you are there.

If you can say Agonikak Loop Trail, you'll enjoy skiing the five mile trail located at the Watersmeet Visitor Center off U.S. 2 and U.S. 45. The trail winds through hardwoods on snow covered logging roads with rolling hills, several slopes, and a small trail bridge crossing peaceful Duck Creek. For updated skiing conditions, call the Watersmeet Ranger District.

Just west of Watersmeet on U.S. 2 the Sylvania Outfitters also grooms 20 miles of trail across the Ottawa National Forest with loops that can be used for skijoring and snowshoeing as well.
 
Other winter recreation opportunities for the snowshoer, dog sledder and cross country skier exist across the Ottawa  for all those desiring a more remote experience of breaking trail through one of three backwoods wilderness areas on the Ottawa, as well as breaking trail across hundreds of miles of unplowed roads within the forest boundary.
 

Snowmobile
SNOWMOBILE TRAILS  In Big Snow Country there are over 2,000 miles of groomed trails that can be easily accessed from practically anywhere.  There is unmatched beauty, coupled with the most reliable snow in the Midwest, to provide a perfect snowmobiling experience.  From Lake Superior, with its gift of lake effect snow, to the southern boundary of Gogebic County, the trails can’t be beat.  Maps and snowmobile permits are available at the Ironwood Chamber of Commerce office in downtown Ironwood (trail 2) and other range area businesses.  Trails are open December 1--March 31.  Trail reports are available by calling 1-800-522-5657.